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Advances in Digital Technology

D IGITAL CAMERAS have come a long way in the past year. They're smaller, lighter, cheaper, with sharper pictures and smarter features. In short, they're almost worth buying.

I say almost because digital cameras are still only good for one thing, namely taking visual memos for easy posting on a Web site or sending them via the Internet to friends and colleagues. Most still don't offer picture quality equal to standard photographic film and those that do are still very expensive. Moreover, a cheaper class of these...